"Australia Open first day"

   There was no surprise except Tomic-Verdasco match in the first day of first grand slam of the season, Tomic made an absoulutely fantestic return with support of fans in the match;Fernando Verdasco was favourite for this match and he was 2-0 ahead after 2 sets but Bernard Tomic made an unexpected and incredible came back(4-6/6-7/6-4/6-2/7-5) against to no 22 of the tournement, he didn't let Verdasco to take the third and fourth set and he break Verdasco's service in the 11th game of the final set, then victory was unavoidable for Tomic and he gets to the secound round.His oppennet in the second round is Sam Querrey.

   Federer made the 60th victory of his Australian open career and he beaten his russian oppenent Alexandre Kudryatseva (7-5/6-2/6-2).He broke his oponnet's service at the most critical moment of the first set and the rest was not so hard for Roger Federer.He will play the second round with the winner of Eric Pradon-Andreas Beck match.


  World number 2,Rafael Nadal, had a smilar victory(6-4/6-1/6-1) with Roger Federer his injury on his shoulders was making Rafael Nadal fans worry but it wasn't too hard for him to beat Alex Kuznetsov, actually it was a quick victory.He said "There was a weirdness about my knees but it is not so important." in the postmatch interview.
He will play against Tommy Haas in the second round.

  Caroline Wozniacki,world number 2 of women's ranking, had an easy victory(6-2/6-1) against  the australian player Anastasia Radianova.In first four games, match was going neck to neck but then Wozniacki took the 9 games after that and dominated the game. She will play against Anna Tatishvilli on the second round.

  Last champion,Kim Clijsters, played against Maria Koehler, although she was forced in the first set she won the game with an easy second set (7-5/6-1) and her opponent on the second round is Stephanie Gacon.


  In the opening match of the day Victoria Azerenka had a quick victory(6-1/6-0) against british player Heather Watson.

 Li Na,last finalist of the tounamet, also had an unforced victory(6-3/6-1) against kazakh player Ksenia Perwak.


Let's take a look at the best motion's of the day:

Dames : la 1re journée en images

"First grand slam of the year starts this sunday"

 First grand slam of the season Australian Open starts this 
monday (January 16th) and draws are announced :


Men's Singles
Women's Singles

Last champion Novak Djokovic will play against Paolo Lorenzi who is 108th player in ATP world ranking. 

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal 's oppennets are from qualifying.It seems that Roger Federer who won this cup 4 times cannot be matched against Novak Djokovic until final because he stands at the bottom part of the draw, but he can match with Rafael Nadal at semi-finals.

Andy Murray, finalist of the last year, have to pass Ryan Harrison to get second round.

In women's draw, Caroline Wozniacki still chasing a grand slam victory will play against Australian player Anastasia Radianova in first round.

Petra Kvitova has a chance to get number 1 in women's tennis world at the end of tournament and she will play against Vera Dusheva.

Victoria Azeranka has just won the Sydney Cup, she is on the Wozniacki's side in the draws and she has to beat the britain player Heathor Watson to get the second round.

Last champion Kim Clijsters and Li Na can match on the 4th round but first belgian tennis player has to beat the oppennet comes from qualifying and Li Na has to beat Ksenia Perwak to get the second round.

Maria Sharapova will play against Gisela Dulko and Serena Williams' opponnent is Tamira Paszek.

Venus Williams had to draw back from the Australian Open because of her immune system disease called Sjorgen Syndrome.